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Reports: Cycle ride marks the history of gay rights

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Reports: Cycle ride marks the history of gay rights

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By Charlie Kiss On Sunday 14th September I joined the bike ride out in Camden and Islington – a fund raiser for the Peter Tatchell foundation and to commemorate the first gay rights demonstration held in Britain in 1970. I had seen the film Pride the night before and was therefore especially motivated to go […]

Review: Pride – a brilliant, feel good story

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Review: Pride – a brilliant, feel good story

Review of Pride, out today, by Jim Jepps. For people of my generation The Miners’ Strike of 1984 was a defining moment. For good and ill, it shaped our ideas and beliefs about this country for decades to come. Just like the movement against the Iraq war it was not only a set of events that […]

Dear Nora: I read a book by Julie Bindel… and I liked it

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Dear Nora: I read a book by Julie Bindel… and I liked it

Dear Nora, I have a very delicate and personal problem, please help me, I’m desperate. You see, it all started when I was looking for some holiday reading. On a whim I picked up Julie Bindell’s new book “Straight Expectations” thinking “well, if nothing else I can write a scathing review of it.” It started […]

“Pride” trailer – release date 12th Sept

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“Pride” trailer – release date 12th Sept

Pride is a film set in the Miners’ Strike telling the true story of the Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners group who fought prejudice and the class the struggle. Having been to a preview screening I can tell you that I pretty much cried from the beginning to the end of this film. Not […]

Austerity and the mental health crisis in the LGBTQ* community

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Austerity and the mental health crisis in the LGBTQ* community

This article is by Charlie Smoke of the Polarised Project The flash bulbs that exploded over the sandstone exterior of Islington Town Hall on the 29th March 2014, in celebration of the first same sex marriage, were almost bright enough to whitewash the cracks rapidly appearing in the LGBTQ* community. Almost. The London Borough of […]